Mini-hackathons to build your portfolio and win cash prizes
Certify your skills in various domains by participating in DEV Challenges. Winners get to claim bragging rights, an exclusive DEV badge, and oftentimes, some serious cash. All participants receive a completion badge to show off their accomplishments.
We organized our first DEV Challenge back in March, and are solidifying our commitment to bringing more challenges to the community with today's product hunt launch!
DEV Challenges are mini-hackathons that come in many different forms -- some are simple writing prompts, some flex your creativity and encourage you to show off your personality, and some are full fledged apps with complex requirements. Example domain areas include artificial intelligence, frontend development, computer science, API integrations, and more! Most challenges run for just under two weeks but we'll occasionally offer a longer timeline when there is more at stake.
Right now, we're in the middle of the Build Better on Stellar: Smart Contract Challenge that's all about helping web developers get into web3, blockchain, and decentralized finance. It's a great learning opportunity with equally great rewards -- a $50,000 cash prize pool and a trip to London to be exact.
We also launched the Nylas AI and Communications Challenge yesterday that has a big emphasis on creativity and $3,000 prize pool. Please check them both out!
Our main goal for DEV Challenges is for participants to walk away with new knowledge, and hopefully, a statement piece to add to their professional profile (be it on DEV on otherwise). Of course, there is also oftentimes the opportunity to win cash prizes too (like in the Stellar Challenge).
If you've participated in a DEV Challenge before, we'd love to hear your thoughts -- especially if there are new domains and tools you'd like to build with or write about. Please let us know how we can improve the challenge experience!
Thank you to everyone who checked out our launch today.
About DEV Challenges on Product Hunt
“Mini-hackathons to build your portfolio and win cash prizes”
DEV Challenges launched on Product Hunt on August 8th, 2024 and earned 143 upvotes and 26 comments, placing #16 on the daily leaderboard. Certify your skills in various domains by participating in DEV Challenges. Winners get to claim bragging rights, an exclusive DEV badge, and oftentimes, some serious cash. All participants receive a completion badge to show off their accomplishments.
On the analytics side, DEV Challenges competes within Software Engineering, Developer Tools and Artificial Intelligence — topics that collectively have 1M followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how DEV Challenges performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted DEV Challenges?
DEV Challenges was hunted by Jess Lee. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
For a complete overview of DEV Challenges including community comment highlights and product details, visit the product overview.
Jess Lee